staggering with swagger

here are a few lines I'm considering for my cento essay:

(the theme I'm choosing is America's foreign policy. how relevant, rite?))

it's what we all want, in the end p41
they aren't saying anything, these boys. 33
a certain day became a presence to me 45
and what i heard was my whole self 45
of waste, and the bees whirled into my ears 46
but still i heard you calling in the night 47
and you were there as well, a touch away 47
oh, if i could be compelled 49
to pass through the worlds of dream and death, 49
to sense the earth's axis, the earth's axis 49
red apples, racing like hearts. the summer pushes her tongue into the winter's throat 49.5
final demands and dead men, the skeletal grip 112
while safe at home, the tender and the gentle 114
a credit card. his face the last time, 116
the other country, is it anticipated or half remembered? 117
on the wrong side of your eyes. A beautiful boy 117
let not young souls be smothered out before 130
one hundred and forty-six died in the flames 136
what can be recorded, you can't be them 138
truth is only known to its victims 139
to what all frightened people say 147
It's so quiet now, I can hear the sparrows foraging scraps of grarbage on the paths 150
the wreck and not the story of the wreck 153
and how he'd borne it, until the young had flown 176
expectant that there is left only the posture 167